{"id":84914,"date":"2011-05-02T18:37:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T10:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-wins-abs-2-launch\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T18:37:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T10:37:25","slug":"arianespace-wins-abs-2-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-wins-abs-2-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Wins ABS-2 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n[05-02-11] <strong>Arianespace <\/strong>will launch the ABS-2 communications satellite for <strong>Asia Broadcast Satellite <\/strong>(ABS) on an Ariane 5 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana in 2013, the launch service provider announced April 29.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ABS-2 will be placed in geostationary orbit at the 75 degrees East orbital location and co-located with the ABS-1, ABS-1A and ABS-1B satellites. The spacecraft will be fitted with C-, Ku-, and Ka-band transponders to provide optimized direct TV broadcast, multimedia applications, telecommunications and data transmission services over Asia, Russia, Africa and the Middle East.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall confirmed that with the addition of the ABS-2 contract, Arianespace has secured a total of 58 satellite launches for Asian operators to date. &#8220;ABS is a dynamic operator with a lot of professional expertise so we are particularly proud to have won their confidence to launch the ABS 2 satellite that will be critical for their company\u2019s future,&#8221; Le Gall said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-02-11] Arianespace will launch the ABS-2 communications satellite for Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) on an Ariane 5 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana in 2013, the launch service provider announced April 29. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ABS-2 will be placed in geostationary orbit at the 75 degrees East orbital location and co-located with the ABS-1, ABS-1A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}